Only the ball was white : a history of legendary Black players and all-Black professional teams / by Robert Peterson.

Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.

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Main Author: Peterson, Robert, 1925-2006
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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